Shenhua Group, China's largest coal producer, produced 15 percent more coal in January from a year earlier, and has told its mines to keep working through the Chinese New Year to help fight the country's worst coal shortage, state media reported.
China is facing its worst power crisis in years as heavy snow has swept through half of the country and crippled transportation of thermal coal, which fires more than 70 percent of power generators.
Shenua Group, parent of China Shenhua Energy , produced 20.8 million tonnes of coal by Jan 29, up 15 percent from January 2007, Xinhua said in its web version www.xinhuanet.com, citing state-run Workers' Daily.
Of the January production, Shenhua sold 18.55 million tonnes thermal coal, 10 percent more than a year earlier, and more than fulfilled supply contracts with China's top five generating firms, the report said.
The company has asked all its 54 mines to work through the Lunar New Year that starts on Feb 7.
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